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Sabri Food Store
San Emilio, 4
Tel/fax: 91 726 98 33.
E mail: sabrif@terra.es.
Metro: El Carmen.
Opens 10am-2.30pm, 5-9pm Monday-Saturday; 11am-2.30pm Fiestas and Sundays.
This homely supermarket lies in a secluded treelined road close to the bullring and parallel to the motorway between Ventas and El Carmen. All goods on sale are imported from Wembley, North London, and in addition to a wide variety of Indian and Pakistani spices, herbs and vegetables, the shop stocks UK products like TCP antiseptic, Coleman's mustard, and PG Tips tea.
Foodland (two branches)
Virgen de Lluc 4
Tel: 91 404 19 02
Fax: 91 539 21 72
Metro: El Carmen
Amparo 88
Tel: 91 467 28 80
Fax: 91 539 21 72
Metro: Embajadores
E mail for both: rodivar@teleline.es
Madrid's two friendly Foodland shops, situated east and south of the centre, sell a wide selection of Arabic, Middle East, Oriental and UK products, including Lebanese tahini, Japanese soya sauce, hot Vindaloo curries, Indian basmati rice and Assam, Darjeeling and PG Tip teas (full leaf or tea bags) alongside English cereals.
Helen's
Paseo de la Castellana 204
Tel: 91 359 63 77
Metro: Plaza Castilla
Open: 8 am to midnight daily.
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